Valentine's Day Activities: How Many Calories Do They Burn?

Valentine's Day isn't a day for focusing on one's diet. Between the champagne, the fancy dinner and the box of chocolates, this lovey-dovey holiday has the potential to pack in a boatload of calories, but many romantic activities can actually help you work up a sweat with your sweetheart. How many calories* do typical Valentine's Day activities burn?

Got a date to go dancing? Slow ballroom dancing will burn 103 calories in half an hour. If you and your honey plan to tear up the dance floor with some more aerobic moves, it will torch 220 calories in 30 minutes.

If you're keeping the romance on the home front, you'll burn 90 calories cooking your sweetie's favorite meal for 30 minutes.

Take a romantic, moonlit stroll after dinner and you'll burn off 95 calories.

Smooch with your sweetie for 15 minutes, and you could burn off nearly 19 calories.

And once you get back home, 30 minutes of foreplay will burn 50 calories, while half an hour of sex is good for 144.

And if your valentine is out of town, you can always burn 36 calories just by chatting on the phone!

*Based on an average 150-pound woman. You can adjust the activity, weight or duration to answer your questions using the Health Status calculator.

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